The term “midnight regulations” refers to the practice whereby an outgoing US administration makes last-minute moves to propel its political agenda before an incoming administration takes over.
US President-elect Joe Biden’s press secretary-to-be, Jen Psaki, said Wednesday that on January 20, Biden will issue a memorandum blocking outgoing US President Donald Trump from issuing so-called “midnight regulations” on Inauguration Day.
Psaki said that Biden would issue the directive in line with “standard practice” for incoming administrations.
According to the Congressional Research Service, the name comes from the midnight deadline for would-be princess Cinderella, before she transformed back into a commoner in the popular fairy tale.
Some of those include expanding methods of federal execution to include electrocution and death by firing squad, while others span from changes to Clean Air Act enforcement to altering how Medicare reimburses physicians and allowing homeless shelters to discriminate against homeless trans people.
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